ABSTRACT

To the disappointment of some, though probably for the reassurance of many others, the more important conclusions to this lengthy and complex forensic examination of strategy and the theory and practice of RMA are clear and unambiguous. Notwithstanding the rich variety of detail among the three historical case studies, those candidate examples of RMA lend themselves persuasively to a common framework of strategic explanation. Indeed, I will venture the thought that were the multi-faceted mechanisation revolution of the 1920s and 1930s explored as above in this text, it would serve only to confirm what the other three cases already reveal.1